The Reveal In Reverse

I've been doing my Twitpic real-time cell phone pictures for about a month. It looks like around 10-20 people check'em out each time and a few people have commented and shared the pics with their followers, adding a caption. Sweet.

Here're the final shots of the pieces I thought worked the best so far:

http://twitpic.com/5q548 - John Lennon
http://twitpic.com/5mtns - Isaac Hayes
http://twitpic.com/5kz9g - Bradley Nowell
http://twitpic.com/58524 - Billie Holiday
http://twitpic.com/548gw - Alice Cooper
http://twitpic.com/4shyl - Sammy Davis Jr.
http://twitpic.com/4nzun - Neil Young

You can go backwards from those to see the faces disappear.

Kinda cool.

Peace.

Bruce Springsteen 06/03/09

Live Painting Again

There, that worked better. Cool.

I think this is a pretty neat use of the integration of mobile technology with the web. What do you think?

Peace.

SOLD - Neil Young 05/06/09

Live Painting

Well, that was frustrating. Yesterday afternoon, I painted this piece, trying again sending "live" cell phone photos to Twitpic. Either my phone or the cell network weren't cooperating because after 2 shots, the rest failed to send. I had to resend them. Oh well. They're there.

I'm trying this to let you in to my process more. I'd done those timelapse YouTube videos quite awhile ago which were cool, but a lot of work. This way you, ideally, get to see the painting develop just about as it happens, or at least get a sense of how it happens. I think it's neat, anyways.

My phone won't let me put a caption so that Twitpic will recognize it, so it comes out as a list of unidentified picture links on Twitter, but I think that's ok. The point is the pictures, being worth a thousand words, right?

Peace.

I Like The World, Not Words

I'm trying something new. I figured out how to send pictures from my cell phone to Twitpic, which then sends updates Twitter:

http://twitpic.com/4jzcb -18 minutes ago from TwitPic

http://twitpic.com/4jyii -30 minutes ago from TwitPic

http://twitpic.com/4jxw4 -40 minutes ago from TwitPic

http://twitpic.com/4jxb2 -about 1 hour ago from TwitPic

http://twitpic.com/4jwur -about 1 hour ago from TwitPic

http://twitpic.com/4jwhr -about 1 hour ago from TwitPic

http://twitpic.com/4jvva -about 1 hour ago from TwitPic

http://twitpic.com/4jvhh -about 1 hour ago from TwitPic

http://twitpic.com/4juyv -about 1 hour ago from TwitPic

http://twitpic.com/4julj -about 2 hours ago from TwitPic

Peace.

Progress

How do you measure progress? Is it always judged by goals achieved, destinations reached, ends?

If life is a journey, then progress is inevitable, uncontrollable even. Whether you like it or not. All you can do is choose how to react. All you are really responsible for in this life is your actions. Again, I think that's why the Tao Te Ching is mostly about action.

So, I'm making progress on Twitter. To me, big progress. But then I don't have a frame of reference. I'm like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie...

All I know is a coupla guys I really respect have, in one way or other, become followers of my stream there. They didn't have to listen. They still might not, especially if I ramble too much there like I probably do here. They're certainly busy enough that they have time to complain about having too much to do. But for now, they're helping me spread knowledge of my art, genuinely. They really do like it!

That's progress, the bottom line, the goal. So people come back around and remember, oh yeah, that guy who paints portraits on records. Like the lady who commissioned the Marley and above Beatles pieces.

Speaking of The Beatles, you'll notice that the photo is a screenshot of TwitPic. I decided to try it for this piece so I could show the progress as I paint the multiple portrait piece. The site works really easily, connecting with a Twitter account so you can upload images and have a status update generated automatically with a link back to the image.

So you can watch me progress.

Peace.